Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Architecting Socio-Technical Ecosystems

社会技术生态系统设计中心将专注于通过组织围绕某些核心主题的研究来促进对社会技术生态系统的理解：商业机会、技术设计、治理制度、协作基础设施以及互动和模拟。卡内基梅隆大学(CMU)和密歇根大学(UM)正在合作建立拟议的中心，卡内基梅隆大学是牵头机构。社会技术生态系统正在成为前所未有的创新引擎。拟议的中心将审查围绕信息技术解决方案/软件的开发和使用的重要问题，同时审查创建这些解决方案的团队的结构、动态和治理。这两所大学正在利用现有的计算机科学和围绕技术的社会科学的优势。该中心解决的问题是引人注目的，并解决了日益增长的需求，因为营利性和非营利性实体在复杂的协作和知识产权环境中穿梭，以创建新的解决方案，并促进用户采用这些解决方案。拟议的中心将使理论发展、经验结果、技术设计以及分析和支持工具方面取得快速进展。拟议中的中心具有改善软件行业的潜力。社会技术界面的创新有可能改善美国的产业。这些新产品和服务可能是市场上的颠覆性技术。学生和教职员工将通过与行业合作伙伴的互动获得宝贵的经验。这两所院校都制定了多元化计划，并将多元化的学生群体和教师视为课程成功的重要因素。

The Center for Architecting Socio-Technical Ecosystems will focus on accelerating understanding of socio-technical ecosystems by organizing research around certain core themes: Business Opportunities, Technical Design, Governance Regime, Collaborative Infrastructure, and Interactions and Simulations. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Michigan (UM) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with CMU as the lead institution. Socio-technical ecosystems are emerging as unprecedented engines of innovation. The proposed center would examine important issues around the development and use of information technology solutions/software, right alongside with examining the structure, dynamics, and governance of the groups that create these solutions. The two universities are taking advantage of existing strengths in computer science and the social sciences surrounding technology. The problems addressed by the center are compelling and address a growing need as for-profit and non-profit entities weave their ways through a complicated collaboration and IP landscape to create new solutions, and to catalyze their adoption by users. The proposed center will enable rapid progress on theory development, empirical results, technology design, and tools for analysis and support. The proposed center has the potential to improve the software industry. Innovation at the social technical interface has the potential to improve US industries. These new products and services could be disruptive technologies in the market place. Students and faculty members will gain valuable experience by interaction with industry partners. Both institutions have diversity plans in place and view a diverse student body and faculty as important to programmatic success.